A letter to the editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette, the paper local to the US Air Force Academy, proposed an interesting conundrum following the repeal of the policy best known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:”

…Let’s consider the dilemma the Air Force Academy faces in assigning roommates now that homosexuals can serve openly. If everyone’s values and beliefs are considered, as they should be, they will need to consider the heterosexual’s values, too.

Roommates with conflicting sexual preferences will encounter unhealthy and unfair sexual tension. If two homosexuals are roomed together, this is clearly a sexual-preference bias equalized only if men and women were allowed to room together, too, which the cadets would cheer. 

If a heterosexual and homosexual mutually agree to room together, it inherently will cause problems in the perceptions of others, resolved only if homosexuality is viewed on an equal moral footing with heterosexuality…

James Homoki
Palmer Lake

To this point, the military has said only that sexuality, unlike gender, will have no official bearing on billeting, though unique circumstances can be handled at the commander’s level.  How this will be executed in practice remains to be seen.